Continuation of our review of best albums in 2024! As I mentioned last week, this time I won’t rate them in a form of a chart, but just simply list them without a special announcement for the record of the year. We continue with good tunes, this week featuring Doris Melton, Grace Cummings, JD Simo and Luther Dickinson, Daniel Romano, Lemon Twigs, Redd Kross, Best Bets, Leyla McCalla, Gabriel Naim Amor, Delta 21, Dale Crover, Cody Dickinoson, Rowdy, Jessica Boudreaux, Scott Reynolds, Madeleine Peyroux, Little Albert and The Resonars.
Doris Melton – Getting It Even Pt 2
Grace Cummings – Common Man
JD Simo and Luther Dickinson – Do The Rump
Daniel Romano’s Outfit – Generation End
The Lemon Twigs – Rock on Over and Over
Redd Kross – What’s In It For You
Best Bets – Spooky Signals
Leyla McCalla – Tree
Gabriel Naim Amor – September Escapade
Delta 21 – Fly Trap
Dale Crover – Doug Yuletide
Cody Dickinson – Homewrecker
Rowdy – All In My Head
Jessica Boudreaux – Exactly Where You Wanna Be
Scott Reynolds – Barista
Madeleine Peyroux – Showman Dan
Little Albert – Blue and Lonesome
The Resonars – At Journey’s End
The Best Albums in 2024
Motorpsycho - Neigh!!
Guadalupe Plata - La Runa
The Hypos
Omni - Soubenir
Zerodent - Human Races
Makki Jones - Message From The Indigo Children
Sara Petite - The Empress
Corey Ledet Zydeco- M?é?dikamen
Colin Cutler - Tarwater
David Nance & Mowed Sound
Ty Segall - Three Bells
Charles Moothart - Black Holes Don't Choke
Osees - Sorcs 80
J Mascis - What Do We Do Now
Rosali - Bite Down
Lydia Loveless - Nothing's Gonna Stand in My Way Again
Ann Savoy - Another Heart
Doris Melton - Reflected Perspective
Grace Cummings - Ramona
JD Simo and Luther Dickinson - Do The Rump
Daniel Romano's Outfit - Too Hot To Sleep
The Lemon Twigs - A Dream Is All We Know by
Redd Kross
Best Bets - The Hollow Husk of Feeling
Leyla McCalla - Sun Without the Heat
Gabriel Naim Amor - Stories
Delta 21 - Live at Blues?-?Rock Festival Osijek
Dale Crover - Glossolalia
Cody Dickinson - Homemade
Rowdy
Jessica Boudreaux - The Faster I Run
Scott Reynolds - Magic Beans & Time Machines
Madeleine Peyroux - Let's Walk
Little Albert - The Road Not Taken
The Resonars - Electricity Plus
The highlight of today’s show is interview with Doris and Matthew Melton of Dream Machine. I decided to inspect their interesting histories. You can find out where they come from, how they got together, what got them to switch from love songs to more abstract themes, what equipment they use to make records and what in the world it all has to do with Yugoslav 70s rock. But that’s the second part of the show. The firs part introduces new music from Sick Thoughts, Bad Sports and Platinum Boys. From Greece, we hear the new tunes of their legendary band The Last Drive. Ty Segall, the most productive rock musician ever just finished yet another album this year and it’s one of those cover albums. Today we check out his cover of Dils’ Class War.
We continue our list of best albums in 2017, this time with top 14 albums. This year was full of albums that will surely stay and I will definitely keep coming back to these many times in my life. Chris Church has came up with with a power pop album that can stand next to all the classics from that disarming genre that only seems effortless on the surface. Big Hogg offered us their extremely playful version of modern day prog rock. If you think Alien Lanes are a classic record, you should definitely look into Stevens and their album Good. Similar albums with great melodies, low fi and clever segues were always in the top of my albums in the past years. Matthew Melton and his wife Doris started a new project Dream Machine and The Illusion definitely made a mark, even politically (although unwittingly). Hayley Thompson-King and her concept record about the biblical woman is truly a deep album that goes from country over garage rock and ends up in opera. Tin Foil are newcomers from Detroit with an addictive set of songs on their album without a title. Pink Tiles return with a record that definitely puts them on a map of serious bands with fun content. David Nance comes from Omaha and has created an album sounds so well crafted, as if he was putting albums for a really long time. Americans on I’ll Be Yours reach depths and territories that were only visited by House of Freaks in the past. Emmett Kelly and his Cairo Gang continue with a series of truly timeless albums with Untouchable. Harlan T. Bobo’s new album came out only a month ago, and there was not enough time to come back to it many times, but it definitely made me rearrange my playlist and put him up on the high third place. It might be his strongest yet. On the top we have Sweet Apple and Bash & Pop. There’s a lot in common to these albums. Both are genre defying and disarmingly playful works of rock’s veteran warriors who know exactly where the sources of this music is. It was a good year for rock.
What a year for Matthew Melton. He put out four albums, one with Warm Soda, two with Dream Machine and one new solo. His lovely Yugoslavian wife Doris got unjustly accused for fascism, Castle Face them both out of their label and then they relocated from Austin to Netherlands. And one of those Dream Machine albums is also new. We check that out in today’s show and wish them better luck with the new label. We also have new music from The Golden Boys (also from Austin) and Steelism. We also introduce The Hooten Hallers. But the biggest new album this week is the brand new one from Harlan T. Bobo. It’s called Hector, The History of Violence, and it’s perfect. At the end of this episode, we say goodbye to Johnny Hallyday who passed away last week after a long battle with colon cancer.